The Sun. — London, England, 1809-04-22 00:00:00

v aa n s a loy,a a esiie that that comlba — shoeld belairly investigated, and that Ito misreptesefitation of thefafia aheuld,be sub stituted 'toril,e Nas themselv es. e. The Jirst of tln-s tnisrepresentatiO ns which he ahtruld,notice was, the insinuation that hisaMajesty:s- Ministe're had used every means in their power to-,stir. up, the popialal• feeling o this subjeEt It must he eyiklent to eyzry unprejtaliaed mind; that`this was not tlie case, but .that: the popular teeling:had been' -expressed spontaa neously and consentatieously.,, The NobleEar.l had censured his Majesty's Government for,precipita lion ; .he had declared it to be his opinieti, that they ought 104 ave waited tot ascertain the "probability of tlir .sic by of .the cause of patriotism'. in, Spain, be. fore they ntiered:the Spaniards assistance.. This was a most- extraordinary oSitlion. ' What ! when, the feeling of resistaneeaigainst oppression was so strong and so general in Spain; would- it' have been , .hoa nourable to the British ,charaattr, had his Majesty's Ministers told the gallant Spaniards—Jf We will not give you aid whileyou are Most in want of it; while your etliarts at emancipation are in infancy;- but we will defer our assistance until you are in full strength, - and need it not ?"—Had such been the language Meld by his Majesty's Ministers, they Would itidt'ed have 'deserved the reprobation of every man in the 'country. It was a Singular sir= cumatance in the hostility shewn to his Majesty's' Ministers; with respect to their c9tritat.l4 in the afa lairs of Spain, that "each individual who censured their-Matt had a plan of his own, but that utfertu ,nately none of - these plans had a single pritkiplc! of agreement with each other, l'his at least slitawni ,ed the 'dif6etilli under which his Mitjesty's Mini titers had laboured in. the ferritaticin of 'their own measures, althotlith it - afforded, a facility : lo l ' lncli "g 'hel); He teas convinced that be sh(Vta be able satisfactorily to . prove 'to -their Lordshißiwo things ; the fir s t, th a t, the plan odepteti by hisriMai jeSty'a Ministers with roortl (o.4oV..49k4NtfVcst wise and .eatiedlent that' etitillir 11;- haW, ken; adopted, and th at it was pursued w i ll liztlftritfriataiit and tirnmess ; the secon&rthat tead any other elan heen,adopted; it . would - prObably t lent t%en t ore aneceasitik than the play adopted; byt:theLoat. Wire Noble `bad coinentled that his,„MjjeaVakli a riisteril'hat been i'erialtiain . uvt hating made a g r e a t effort in ,Spain itself i n instatece,,klow beitire - "any' opinion lielointal ,On th e pre- —piety of s uc h a ste p, i t must-be' '-considereat that. Kiva!, te any extefaabothoperatiomof the mea sure alluded to, it must hp_tjeceasary to , look Or' some sale port,wherethe troops Knight be disem barked without' danger, ,into which. the yiatuallers could be '• received. with rase, and 'near which the men of war Might 'have remained for the purpose • ° f operation; As 'a .general principle be might • sa fely 'contend that it .was impracticable, and that tt, Pra4tipable, it was .not : , wise to send a l a rge. ttti la army` into the inierioa 4 of' any continental country, without the previous .attaiernent a or the int:Ali:4 by_ which •that army.wotild be4rendered se. cure. • These means - werewholly wanting, on the tertit-west coast of Spain, r&cortitraaided -by, the Noble Earl. No security could there be found for i.e-OMbarkation troops—,no facility there existed for oxtensiveoperationt.. The provinCeathere were worse itipplied With provision' than :any other in Span,. If any confirmation of .these assertions were wanting, it would be .found in the . .opirlialOof the Martinis de 11 Olatia, who! having to, he sent !_k4) hia litnited.force to Si. Andero, where he had vver r il iducernent - to . wish for the neighbauthood of a British ar my, distinttly d-eeitred,- that w a might have an ertlrepot at COMII4IO,'FIt Vigo, at Feri 01, al ; • hut at _no port on'- the .north , west coast of Spain. Thus Mr', it Was proved . that midi a measure would — be militarily inipraeticable. It reittained to shew that had it net been militarily itnln Icticable, it Would, halite breve i polaicaily max- P edi elq at that time to,have sent a 'large British army into Sp a i n . 'Spain rose - b y separate provinpes; these aaparate'provioces had 'separate Junta's, :pepa a rate ' arrhies, and separate Ge t i e rals. There was DO Coo itnon centre of Union, and although he did 110 1 state this as an obj'etaion to sending a ciefi- Cle fora: foi a definite - objeff, yet be contended, that considering the unavoidable jealousies which Must have existed among so many' authorities of equal rank and 'power; it would have been highly imprudent 'to have trested a' British army in the 'wart of Spain, until some one of those authori ties obtained a predominating influence. He 'knew that it - lia•I been urged as 'matter of complaint, that demands had been . made for assistance by some of the provinces in Spain, which demands had been un-, complied with. Ten thousand men had been asked' for by the province of Asturias: "This was for local defence., It became a matter of consideratiOn to 11'1'5'1 Majesty's Ministers, whether or. not it would be wise to grant this request ; and ter certainly fornied• otie Of • the principal reasons for their refusal. The point for. which the assistance was sought; was one of the least vnlnerable to 'the enemy.. — Another complaint made - was, that the Province of °Alicia had called for the assistance of cavalry,. which had never been sent theul. He laelieveti„ :. howev.er, that ''no Minis ter who knew his ditty ,would havezdvised his Ma jesty to send cavalry to Gallic:la without accompany.. ing it with a due proportion of infantry. 13esides, in Its.opinion, it would have been most fatal to the -I caipie of Spain, and the Spanish army, to have sent tht-iii this aid of cavalry, tar it would have drawn the Spanish infantry from the mountains down to I. l ie plains Where alone the British cavalry! could aZiect,• but, where the French intantry- were in irresistible superiority of nut bers lra June,i when V ) )0 AM turian Deputies; and afterwards 'the Gallician e P t *s• arrived.in this country; a B r iti s h m ili tar y (rce w al preparing for embarkation tinder the com inatid of Sir A. Wellesley, The' noble Earl was, However, Mistaken in supposing , ' whatever migh t J'ilt:e been the originfil destination of that force; that in the breasts of-his Majeatys Mi l'Ners the least , intention to persevere in carrying t !" qriginal object, in execution, _after they were i -1 '1111(41 of th e appearance,,however partial, of re silit''le.t? in Spain to French tyranny. This, force, out with diredihns to proceed, either to the t)111 - 11 "I S'i.itift' or to the Tagus ; and it was judged eApecuestt totentrust Sir A—Wellesley with a uiscre.! , tini tiVY hilv ~ tsvro.tit his.- subitel . The. Noble k;arf bad 1 t41 t4 isiS nijeiitj's hltnisters had - Ben . ; tins v.'ittio u t -tuy , - definite ob j ect . But ►; ll4l; , :liiila° Vir roan hate thoN . ht of ' 4l "." 4 :9tr's Ooretattient - 11 they bad 'di:lived their !~! f.l - .i r .uy wiltung tor pre'eltiC UCIaIIS poWSSCCI as -they; an Ito substitute others km etabotti the public coca,- army under General 13Jake, the army-of Estrernarlit ,wciere o f dener.d information `respiding the - occur- • fidence was placei.. He . now ca,m;3,to the question . I ea, and the army of Caeeinos, atecrefte r • th e 6 nitor ,.. ' f ences in Spain ?:.'llley knew deal they could safely respeaing the march' of Melt , Wish artily. into Spain. lof Madrid.. .if the Frenuli had beenperinit t ed to int ,,h ' t rui - t the gallant Officer a; the 'bead of that Expe- , The Noble !,ctrl had said, 'that after havingeaccom- I on towards' the Soutle; while- the Soni s l i ti - ,r, c ,..: 3 ‘ ,;., 1 ,, dition with'the discretion vestrya in him e they knee , ' plished tlicobjea ef.their . ,,expeditien, toat'ortugat, ~if :1 so 'diapersed, no 12'4 could hare been made, and - the that even as a diversion aloneohe li,XpeditiOn Would . it , c , !re'lliouglit eipedient thot they should go into ; Biller of Franee tee,leVery thin , ; - irt his p.)wer.-- That onswe e, a most important olet6t, Were their Lori-' Spain;' that they thoold'ite sent only . to 'the Semi) ;it was' his, desiget 40 rnjrch into e t ! • San t h.app,i are d ships ` aware of the advan'tages which might have ',' of Spain . ; and that he was. 7 Sure that• af:tittliz or i from- the inter(XPted nrresponder r e e and o' tr e e p a.;; er , b e ee d e s i red from' :that: cfirce, even had . it het pro- at, Altdaltmeia ethey-wenldehave been received_ with t upon the lahl4. Sit I. Moore% advaiinc did g , ,y, I l i eeetted to the place of its, destination,, by-diversions great satisletSlieo. To Andalusia,! There was no ! South timte to -rally : tlie different eerie, were er e . upon the coast ? In the state..ot Spain! and. Por- -• danger there; rue danger was ha the NOrthe , The I aiAiled. to re-assemble the Central - Junta tri fo r t- ; ..tugal such diversions vroold have been most sir- - Andaluaittes , bad'even- seht their whbleaartny toe nd, in ,fine,.it was the so urce o f a ll t h e resistance we vieeable: it was to thr" diversion of Gneral Sperie distance. The r e was- .not a single Frenchman, • had since witnessed, as without it Spain would t,' .. v. crier at Ayamonte that the- sryeedy defeat- of Dupont ; nor the chance that there evould be one in the been , crualted by the Conqueror: , Net rink , wa s it , was attributable, In his opinioo e it was the duty of . wl l9 lp .p ro o nee . Bad such, a step beeo teken,', the attended • with these obviously gond -efli.:ets, out it Government, as it .wits their ell'ort, to equip the best gfca n i l.t d s . would indeed have thought we ,were t gave courage,. spirit, And Aninottion to the peopi e .-. force theY 'conk!, 'and'to dire, it against . the °tele& shrinking and n al in earnest. Furr the delay in Asa diversion, as Sir J. Moore i n More than one w ei e h it seemed 16 - them toot!) mto ti aterial tthin, - but matching the ' , Ale* late - Spain, . 'his 4 Majesty's j letter had .stated, it had completely eticeeeded--it ewithout such a tioal ..detetrnination.:as -should pre- t Ministers were not answerable. Befor e -th e y k new i had indeed confounded all the plans cif the enemr. lude all discretion on ehe part of the Commander.' of th e evacuat i on o f P ortuga l , or o f t h e probab i l i ty Leaving however this, part of the.subjefl, lie had to This force, tinder Sir A. 'Wellesley, called at Corunna ' that such air Occnr - renCe'woOld . take place in so short turn to the more general question of the measures at a Very critical Moment. - :The Gellieialiinnta de- f a time, his IVlajelly's' Ministers' Sent out insirufti 7 .eiS takeo.by the Government, o f this Country, a n d h e clareid, that tVie,firetembjeet of she British ought to b e to the _British. Commailders eo. prepare toi.essist , had no hesitation in saying, that if the original plans . . the expulsion of the French from Portugal. :At that . Spain the moment that, their immediat e o bjet was t h ey l a id down bad,been cafried Into . ctlea, their ti me such an operation wos - obviously the most ad- accoMplisifeE Thee insiralioes were seta on the ' success would have been adequate..to the mo s t san. v in i t oge aos, 'b o th f'Or - Spain and Portugal. General ' etith ofeAugette and on' the '24' of'September, guine hopes that were.entertained. Cretimit a ncea; ! Duilont was in estate of resistance.. The contest in when , i the ne,weof the battle: of Yimeira . had: just not in the po wer of men . to controul, .tod, in sor n , t the South was undecided. But evert after the ante . artive e l, iniir o olp hs were . again sent out e not to measure, prevented:this, but next to eon - whale stu.-- r e n d er o f Dupont, there could be little thaubt,ofehe wait'for" Shy defaile'd orders before the army Was ~ icesslit must•be-alloweci t :that an ateempt, consietent ftdlley'Cif expelling the' French frotti Portugal, and . set- is trintion. a He - lred ni) reason toleelicie, hew- with the safety of our army, was oecc-,4sary to in: dusmnabliog the Spaniards to (tired-all their atten- , ever, ethatethe delay which took place was avoid- , spirit and aid the SOMA) nation. In making this ji on t o , the Pyrenees. In compliance with the wish . able. Armies could not tiy, .nor could they live ' attempt. Corunna was f i x e d o n a s an cu b e m i r, e nd ofd tire' C4, l lli c ia n Junta, Sir A. Wellesley proceeded .: bit air. Great' preparations must necessarily be the transports, vieluallere, eac, re.qui s i te to, theeup.* ply and embarkation of a !aerie :force.., wer'e sent 8'11)(1; 'T,tgus, 'an& . determined to attack the French i . made.' -:HZehad no reason to believe that . the delay : there'. Ile couldevivawith troth o f thargalhint offi- 1 was- occasielbed either by Sir flew Dalrymple or-Sit there. it .was afterwards rt.presented by experienced car, that ita eomitig .te ~this_ tielermitratnati. he wee. : D a vid B a i r d eoreu e sequent ly by Si r Jahn Moore.--, thfieers and persons in whose . 4skitt:antu integrity intlueneed,,by bis : poblic ditty alone; for, stnidst all It - die-ti...c4.,1,hit„ looked; „t., t h e corr es p on d ence of ,contitenee could be placed, that Vieo was better : ilk brilliant'lnAlitiete - no oire was' more etnitiert r eelien Lord-Wm. Bedirickethey NtOttld timid that the delay ,adapted for this purpose, and accordirt;iy the fleet ef the complete absettee of envy and. of any tbelliveof : originated in those embarrassments under ,which a vessels were sent from Corunna to, Ow r6rt. • Sir degradelion at beioA; 01P149/vd under ertyPtiler ;Ili- : Otivernioellt,nu , kly fo,r,rned, ,likc.thaten the General Jelin Moore afterwards deterthined to retreat-on Co . Ffo 4.4 would .not remit an ,efilogy ettl, tk . %:1C107 , j " jillt3, must naturelly, labour. kle - now Caine to. the runna; the shipping bad to be sent •round agai n to '. ries Obtained in PottugAti he Would Only 'oberve, : general •plaribf the Cittepeitth. in his remarks ott this that port. In this then: was no. lileine to:lie ette e i t . thatin thirteen dayseSir A. Weyetly heetetheellreoch ~ su bj e et, t h e Nook Earl netts; °nett ed t o . v e te -that eed to Ministers, who had in every step done their oree , gentraleend, two e tei,ittielesegagements, i! that plan so adopted Vials irrittridt conformity to the ditty, and Provided toe most means,' as 4ell:asidl ow in .oed.compelled them to' an arm i m i ee , an d l o .w, tilii7 'i serlYlPlnti of tholetgt,meet milit el y ame o rities- in reeked:them, in the beet manner forthe safety and mate evacuation of Poritigal. With t- esp a,t to t h e .. soh ' . Castanos and t;melsdcmoto de Ronmana had . preservation of the British army... , .With rept-dot ' supersession-of Sir A. Wellesleye it-was impOisible t give r eee.o s t h e i r ewt o yeitt me i• the 'British army ought what tell from the Noble Ea •1 respeCting the fleet Itt ' that Any.A.Metuber Jo( garhantent abould 'Hay who- ' to aet.in one corps in the North; lied Corouna.ought . yerrol, from the papers on the table, it was evident cinght, ett.eivrioeouglie,,Oet to command an, army. , t o be rive !weeper, too doter : Poe* train England; that ' that every thing that ceuld be done, consistent with era H ee , alrvmupjeD ~\sral s at Gibraltar' v< ht titst ; the - BTitish trth , Ps frern Portne - ol otight to march by the principles on which this cOuntry acted . , had. l eec h cetimmuitieWlbes•OHrlibeemotions"ineSpalti -arrived, : land int o th e N ort h dr§ i i i i r j, an d itiat that line of 1111,executed in the naost prompt and vieore ~ LIS Illablien and he bad conducted himself with distinguished w atc h ,_ „hi e e, was , se e segeee te y adopted, was the , N o violence, indeed, bad 'been used ; hut on the e , o , ~ • ; ability.. Teepreeece . mane the aceulations Of: the ' beat: for the purposes:. 1... v Sir John Mooreoetas left leth:ot Janoary,, After a .long negocitition, a solemn Nettie Bari, ,S.he. nexteti'"' 1110 alleged Wept of .ca- the option whether to prOceed tie the North of Spain Treaty , wee . etitered , into, by which the Spanish fleets,_ not .pnly to Cache, but in Ferrol • and other valmy in Portugal, and the nsionmptien, the to -' by Lind, or to' go to COrunnom by sea. He deter 7 that suppdieLf 'dead : 6'll4' the Artnioice and Con- mined. to trearclielireugh Portegel and' Spein, And to `ports of Spaina, were secured, H e w oe id. put i t t o ventiors i v el v to e"ascribed. He.w . ished to . enter :: rem -lime chance. of tortnieg a Junction in-the North the Noble Lord upset his own .ponc;pl ete if more „ t Some ~eug. t 1 4 on the tobjeti of the British at Spain wit h Si r D av id Baird. The policy of pros.than thi s could have been done. The Nobl e L ord cavalry whiuli had been seta to time continent. The ceeding 'to spi n at alt -- e - o - uld licit b e questioned, etla,. ri also gene at some length into a detail of the public inind`hal been very nitteli misled an this so- i Would-it have . been Witte' for Ilse `British GOVern- great el men we had sestamed, and of the trea pic, andie wantiaterial, ,with r:etereneeboth to this 4 ment,lo.contino theirs operarirms to the defence of sureeleit had Wen expended, in thee eampai ele 'lt a pe / ether ,I‘ 4 ll,e(lition6, that the House andOe - gouit , - 1 Portupl, and to have made no effort -for the I was time inisfortone of war, .thatin it fume to a con ' try sh,t . llti l r run Away with tae ideate -. Heti the ' deliverance Of Spaie ? 'lt' was the r duty of the 411(0 Siderahle event must accrue ; but. if Nagle tnrels Noble 'hurl evere 'divined what the proportion of Govemenent; having driveu the Vienett out of . Porto- would take into consideratio u the ext ern o r t h e e N _ tonnage for nevi - ley bore to that of tounage 'fbr-in- I .gal, tO,Make a powerful aloe in favour of Spein.— m.), and the length of the eeryiee in which they (*Wry ?I AtaPjkfinfry„antl. , for actitleoredietaisceosieton llt that e tfo r te u d not been so completely successful. were engagedi, they would findi that there had per man was considered as atitlicitterette every.liunita . 1 4 as could bate 'been wished; it woe to be ascribed net rarely beet; en similar force employed in WhiCh the , transported ,Jot leis' than nine ot ten ions wereal. Ito a want ot plan—not to detitteuey of judgment loss hid been so :small.. Look .at the . Helder and loWed.' Thusit , Weuld appear, that it wheld take at lor tbresight in the Bri!ielrGovernment, but chiefly Egypt, and Other armaments in which the Nob e ' parmuch bannage.to carry 5000 cavalry, as .4(4006 iti.• I to. hontitfgeencie 3 whi c h attend all military occua- Lord had a shore, and they would find that in them t rye e B 4 ehe Anmouot of tonnage; was (1,10104 tiotit, whietehetnan lower could not controul. In the the loss was - proportionably trifling., . lit the Nobl e part of the queetion lili totelity of the ttanepOete i eolmversatictietovhicti had passed' between - his Wes- Lord's estimate he had included casualties, without ' • was a more Mareeiel'coesiderafion. ,A' IrotStltetitio 1 ty'l Miteistetts and the Spanish Deputies and OrficerS remembering that in such an army 'as that sent t o ' portAt t o i t he tivrtisiei Of tecertain description, 'having 1 its thie,oeoutryetlie tormerinade Do at leiript to instil Spaitt,ohey would naturally have amounted to 3000: e.certain height between the decks, &c. The goon. ; 1 into theitther too sanguine- eipittations. Ott pie - men; . 'He also left 'out of his colentalion the fro til that 6:wernment coold at any eime procote eel', ' ceetrim e they represented to them the uncertain i general actions' that had been fought. The corpe such vessels wee v6tylimited ; besides it mots to tie lea issue of the contest in which they would engage. • had been embarked in. April, and the loss, collettedehateevalry were not the only horses.s e ot f ert ee det. wee imp 0 Conteinfitiltelhe military though considetable, WLis trot untemel, and looking .. - . . with an irtny,i there most be hems fur the artillery, 1 e I - era of the mow tied 1113 extraerdinary - re- to the service perfertned, the. sacrifice. was not , tor time Statf, .4c. 'The next consideration .was- the 'ablutoss without 4 31/Pratiog .that be • tntistftneet too ,great. He had. agaie to itpeat, that by the country in which cavalry were fella i the central' , with partial success. 'These .took a Very narrow enterprize, of tine force we bad gained - many • - provinces of Spain •wereieavaleyecoutitties ; the two I v i ew - of th e cause, who, suppose d i t would be adtatitagee. We had d r i v e n th e Frc t ich f rom Castiles, And, a 'considerable' part of Leon, ;were I overid one asinvti gn —th a t there could be no re - P ortu gal,a , tolten then-Russian fleet in th e T agus, re cavalry countries; ton the districts through, which, verses, but that all must-be success 'and viaUry.— hayed our own blockading squadron, contributed in time British army marched - were not So. Bikay, lln the 'conversati ons RI which he "alluded, it had the -beginning of the campaign t o th e defeat en d Asturias, t u rim, `Gallicie, ;and even 'Portugal, were not s?.. .been the tiod ev i ate d a d v i ce o f hi s M a j est y' s Mini- corisecpeept surrender of De lm o n t, An d, i n the end of si John Moore. was under- the necessity oo thi s 3 esters to the Spaniards,,toporsne a cautious policy—, elle campaign, had utterly saved Abe South of Spain. count, and on title alone,, of separating his caealr to playa prud en t gatoe—to,keeptheie troops intim Whatever might he the result of the enemy' • from his main body' of infantry, beca us e in' p that motintains, and not to let them descend On the plain cesses, he h a d not yet su bd ued Spain. flea ceded which eves . the 'emearese route for tolstetry, cavalry I until they beds regular army woe which they might to the Noble Leta, that Buonapartealtad•employed could not be adequately supplied. Let their LOrel;"t fall back, and from which . they might expect 'lope 200,000 men in that cou ntr y, hi s best Gener a l s to ships look at other expeditious, on th e eubjeet of co- port and p ro t e Cti on . To proceed with' 'the state- lead them,. and had besides added his own presence valry. Let theiti look at rime expediehet to Egypt, mint of Sir John Moore's march t --On his arrival ;to encomage them the more, But with all thi s ex an-expedition Which he h a d never heard arraigned. at Salamanca he f oun d that Blake's army was de- lertion, ho w a s net at this moment more in poseee- Egypt was a cavalry country. - The ,French cavalry leafed; he was not joined byoGetioNl Hope, and he sion. of Spain then-he was last year. H e h a d the were in great numbers, affording t h em the only . anticieeted - conaid e rebl e o b stec l esi to a junction with Castiles, part of Estremadura, Catalonia,, Leon, end chance which they possessed if resisting the British Sir David Beard. U n d er th ese circumstances of pe- the provinces bord er i ng on t h e Pyrenees —parts a troops,yet the whale of tbecavalry landed in Egypt collar I difficulty, Sir J. Mo o re or d ere d t h e -, army to which, had, i n a ll wars , been subjected to tile army Amounted only t o lbw and there were no hortiee for I retire; but he presently heard of the resistance'at I which was tn . aeter of the, field., S o t lie had Out all the artillery, which ?Fe m e n were o bliged to move Madrid, and was j o i ne d-b y G enera l : H ope, without ' Catalonia lie' had not Murcia, Arragon, &c. nor thertiselves. 'flaying stated these general proposi- . 1 eihion. his arine was incompl e t e , b e ing d e fici ent i n " had h e G a lli c ia, of whi c h more would be heard tiotms witls-respei-lioeh e ditti c eit y of seette, cavalry th e material ingredients of cavalry and infantry. ,The ! hereafter, He could not, - by occupying Madrid, a . abroad, he would boloiye a y, t h at t h ere was not a n iriteliigetice of th e res i stance to t h e. F rench at Ma- ' be had by oeeupying. Vieillia and other capitals, sub s instance on record,' in winch. such an effort had been -chid was communicated to Sir .lehn Moore by Air. due the people. He had exerted his utmost power, Made. 'By the ilocuments on the table it appeared, Frere; and here he would make a few remake net ' and atter all, he was not in possession of one h o ll o t that during the last I . ew months eight or nine thaa.° wha i t had' fallen from the Noble Earl on this part of ,' the Steens!' MobarcltY. The Siminali pe o pl e too , - sand horses were tent to Spain and Portugal, a ri d th a t t he sulkies% ~ 'Fite Nohle&tri had endeavoured to after all their defeats, by th e ir r e -a ssem bli ng, sh eav e that number would have been augment e d to at least j .prove e that Sir '3, Moore had .heeninfineneed In fa, ! ed a spirit, which, if it might not be successful, was I 0,600,• had it not been for aclvices trtim Sir David your, of the movemeot Which' the Nobleßarl thought ' at least entitled to the epithet of a per s e v eri ng e x am Baud, With r e spett to t h e 'sepposeu op era ti on of so unwise, -eolely by the advice of Mr. Frere, and He (Lord Liverpot4 could' not see that lukew arm .. this alleged deficiency of - cavalry in tile produCtion of hid reprobated the manner in which th at opinion ness i n the S pan i s h people which some people saw, - ~ . titeetletiaistice and Conveotien, he totally denied it.: wits given.a-Mr.' Frere's opinion with resped to the Their siinultatieous rising, the surrender of.D u p ent Oil the 22d of ~August),the 'daY on. wlticii the ar- calamities in Spain; which must result from 'aban- to an army, of, which, one half wee composed of mistice wits eon'ettided, the British cavalry an l'or- dotting her cause, was, in his opinion, most sound, badly armed' peatiattts; the gloriOus reSistance- of tugal WfiS considenibly stinerior both in'eu a lity an d an d hit conduct in declaring that opinion highly me- Saragesea, a piece not adequately fortitied--.3 . . number toethe,Yrench artny,. for. the. niolti v nt that tin:ohms; At .the same time he must not be un- resistance scarcely equalled, and surely not. sw ,the destination or Sir A. \Veilesley was tieee tear l''Jr- derstood as commending the mode in which that paesed, by eny eveet of the, kind., - recorded .in tugal, an aderptate supplyof cavalry was sell( ((,) IMI). opinion had been conveyed. Bet tlfetnaiti question ' inetory—end almost every other move r s With resPectOtrihe qeestion wits:thee:it wag poise was, nt of the was Sir John Moore governed by thi s :Kielce Spanish nati o n clearly proved 10 hilt that they.could " ' or not to allow :Juno" to evacua t e Portugaletbat must I or opinion ? The cor re sp on de nce s l ?ewe d that he . notinstly,be accused of coldness ot e ltolifferenete-e- in a greafclegree.depenCon considerakigs,,4 which. could -not be so ; for ht that correspondence he told The Noble Lord here .drew. a parallelebetween. titt.t. ' military men' Were old best judges. a confessed Mr. Frere, that on military questions he should not S p anish nation et this moment, anal e el t e _A t -p el i can that he did' iiot r iniSider la the same &int of view as ask nor follow his opinion. -It Was impossible, there- people during our colbnial war.. We had at first Others ehe,supiteinsed toedity with which the French fore, to contend that Sir John Moore Was averse to ' beat them' in every querter a e taken •alrth e i r - pri nc e.- tnieht Lave crossed the Tagus,. had, the :Convention thus movement, wilier! was a military one. Still pal tovos, . 1 0 . * driven, them .train the field, Sot .no't been cuncl u d e d. Iqta it the e lfreimch could , further to prove, that in, his advance against Soule when they tiedfrem th e N ort h .i t - c ,. a ,, o ut to renew even have maintained theneselees iii Lisbon for a Sir John - Moore was ieflaeneed:solely by his own the war in the South, and when o t zain ernigneri.d in month or two longer, it must have materially delayed ' jodgment of the ellitary prudence and expeil'ettcy the South - , they again rose to oppo ic- tis in tita' North,. ' Ole operations of the British army,, ,and might have . 4 -if such a st'ep,' let their' Lordships refer to that part . They evert in .the-issue succeastel .; ;led by the same eventually caused the loss of sor nOOO mor e men. - 7 ,i of the corrospond e n ee in which Sir Jelin . Moore rules we had every reason to hope the l SpauiSh nit As to the. steps taken by time British army after the - states, that the diffictilties under which belaboured j tion would ism time cod overcome its enemies. From evacuation of Lisleon b`y the French, they appeateti fro-el not having been joined 'by General Hope, and ' the state'allie Country, 'exquisitely edepted by na te hiM to, he highly, prudent. The . :British mums: i from the apprene t oion that be mieht not be able-to titre for defenee, ,trout the ehatacter of thepeopte, not as compageors, :but as deliverers.. 'They could etfeet a junction with sir David ifleirde being reniov- famed for steady valour and yereevering,. we .li a d on ly rest o r e that 'poWer which the Prince Regolt: = ed, tie should have it' in his power to do sometlinie.: good grounds to book for viapey e ateesmetiog their vt. acts, and the extent of the discretion which - they . Heevaa-prepared 'not- only to defen t' d the advance oforts. A, tor thetioursts taken by Mrnistei S, it eo mtt:d .. th o e gtit theaeveseesofted in using wait.) eXeleldtre I Sir .14143 Moore; but stilt further -to rriaintaie that by net pie lops compere willm that di - elated by the c o n. i '. . , • . .